Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991) on Netflix
The Crossbone Vanguard strikes the Earth Federation colony Frontier IV in UC 0123. Seabook Arno, a student mechanic, and his friend Cecily Fairchild are trapped as the fighting spreads.
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After a long peace, the Earth Federation is building new space colonies for a growing population. In UC 0123 the Crossbone Vanguard, the armed force of Cosmo Babylonia, attacks the colony Frontier IV and overruns its garrison. Seabook Arno, a student mechanic, and his friend Cecily Fairchild find themselves caught up in the attack. They lead a group of refugees deeper into the colony, where Seabook's father Leslie reaches them. At the lifeboat Seabook sees Cecily's father Theo trying to take her and intervenes.
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- Masaaki Maedaas Carozzo 'Iron Mask' Ronah (voice)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
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- Mobile Suit Gundam F91 began as a full-length television series planned for the Gundam franchise's tenth anniversary, but staff disputes halted production after scripts for thirteen episodes were written; the material was then condensed into a theatrical film.
- Gundam F91 was the first Sunrise film made using wide-screen format materials; until then the studio's films were drawn on normal-sized paper that was cut off at the top and bottom to adapt them to widescreen.
- Character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko returned to the Gundam team only on the condition that he could help create the story as he had on the original series, but he ended up taking no part in story development and instead arranged parts of the animation and designed and colored elements such as the normal suits.
- Mecha designer Kunio Okawara deliberately kept the number of lines in his mobile suit designs to a minimum because more lines made animating a feature-length film harder, but Sunrise asked him to use as many lines as he could.
- The mobile suits in Gundam F91 were shrunk from the Nu Gundam's 22 meters to about 15 meters, a change creator Yoshiyuki Tomino said made model kits easier to pose with equally scaled human figures and easier to build dioramas around. Tomino wanted to go down to 10 meters, but the size was set at 15 to meet manufacturers' requirements.
- Gundam F91 introduced round, floating manslaughter weapons called "Bugs" to give a more direct feel to the pain and violence on screen than the poison gas of earlier Gundam shows, a choice tied to Yoshiyuki Tomino's belief that children were losing touch with real life.
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